On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 06:05:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:08:30PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:Certainly, the backports.org keyring is useful to some people, *but* it is, 1. not free softwareI don't think there's a legal basis to claim copyright on a blob of random bytes generated by a program. Who's the copyright holder? gpg? The authors of gpg? The person who typed gpg in command-line? The entropy source?
Copyright (in the United States) requires an original creation. Generating several prime numbers for a purely functional purpose is not at all original and hence not copyrightable. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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